Fish Farming?
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sounds fun, until you see what the total cost will be in terms of food, clean water, or equipment to filter, heat, and pump all that water. Alot of the aquaculture areas are close to the sea or a reliable source of water. Also, lot of profitable aquaculture businesses are either over seas, or in valuable food fish like salmon, trout, or catfish. There is also profitable crustacean or mollusk farming like shrimp farming in Bangladesh, or pearl oysters in Japan, etc. But, i did hear that if you can raise lobsters in volume, then you probably can make some money in that but the problems with lobsters are that they are cannibals to each other.
I've thought about doing something with fish for a living then I realized that would suck making a fun hobbie a job or career. Especially sense the $$$ aint that good.
Keep it a hobbie/addiction thats what I say. Put lots of money in to get lots of joy out. Not more $$$ out.
Keep it a hobbie/addiction thats what I say. Put lots of money in to get lots of joy out. Not more $$$ out.
My college major was aquaculture/aquatic science. I worked at the on campus hatchery rearing different trout and Nile tilapia. It was a blast, some of the best years of my life. I would live to eventually work at a state run hatchery but hatcherys aren't common and job openings are rare.
orlok;795461; said:
working on my masters in the subject. In fact I have a test tomorrow on cryopreservation, sperm morphology and creation of YY super males and indirect hormonal control.
the money part is tough. i guess at a state run fish hatchery, it helps that it's funded by peoples fishing licenses.
there are breeders that make a go of it, but from what I can tell, you need about 10,000 gallons to make things work. then you have to be working with an expensive species like discus - not that much demand for jags, doviis, p-bass etc.
i'm only running a few tanks and i hate even looking at my electric bill! baby brine shrimp eggs = expensive! i'm happy if i can simply offset some of the cost of the hobby.....
windsurfer
there are breeders that make a go of it, but from what I can tell, you need about 10,000 gallons to make things work. then you have to be working with an expensive species like discus - not that much demand for jags, doviis, p-bass etc.
i'm only running a few tanks and i hate even looking at my electric bill! baby brine shrimp eggs = expensive! i'm happy if i can simply offset some of the cost of the hobby.....
windsurfer
Since I live in St. Louis the climate's kinda of wrong. If I had the dough I would get one of those big steel, rounded roof, building things.
What sparked my intrest was when I aquired an Aquatic Eco-Systems catalog. They have all the supplies for fish farming.
http://www.aquatic-eco.com/
What sparked my intrest was when I aquired an Aquatic Eco-Systems catalog. They have all the supplies for fish farming.
http://www.aquatic-eco.com/